MICHEALS’ MEMOIRS March 2020 Education Recruitment Update Learn More: www.cbmicheals.ning.com https://issuu.com/wycliffe-cbmicheals
One of the things Chuck has been working on since taking over supervision of the education recruitment work is building his team. When he started this effort in late summer last year he had no staff. Now he has a staff of six and he hopes to build that to a team of nine this coming year.
Dear Friends and Family, There are always lessons to be learned in life and that is the case with the new education recruitment work Chuck has been involved in. In our last newsletter we noted that we were going to three Association of Christian Schools International recruitment events at Baylor, Grand Canyon and Liberty Universities. We were excited to see 80 college students studying education who expressed interest in our work. However, after repeated attempts to contact all 80 people and getting initial replies, none of the 80 have moved ahead with us.
Recruitment staff at Liberty University event
That brought us to a point of examining what was the cause of this lack of follow-up by these students. We discovered that while we followed up with recruits, they were also put on a Wycliffe mailing list that informed students of many other things they could do with Wycliffe. Since successful recruitment is speaking with one voice and encouraging recruits to move in one direction, not many, we have now made sure that these students only hear from the Education recruiter.
Would you please pray with us that future education recruitment events will produce a better harvest of workers?
The Education Recruitment team (minus our daughter Jenny Struyk who is serving part time and helping Chuck’s team with administrative work)
Earlier this month, both Chuck and Barb attended a recruitment week long meeting in Florida to discuss how all our various teams can work together to improve recruitment. This was the first time Chuck’s staff all met each other in person. Before that, all meetings were done by online conferencing. One of the breakout meetings we held was with Chuck’s education recruitment team meeting with the team Barb is on (the Volunteer and Internship Placement – VIP staffing team). Since a number of teachers are going out this year under this application process, out teams met to discuss how we could work together successfully.
Education Recruitment and VIP teams meet